America and a Changed World

Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House. He was previously Executive Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington from 2001 to 2006.

• Preface and acknowledgments viiNotes on contributors ixIntroduction 1Robin NiblettPart I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region 15Victor Bulmer-Thomas2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player 30Claire Spencer3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting? 49Alex Vines and Tom Cargill4 East Asia: searching for consistency 71John Swenson-Wright5 South Asia: navigating minefields 89Gareth Price6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game 109Annette Bohr7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages 125James NixeyPart II Partners and Competitors8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions 145Kerry Brown9 Russia: managing contradictions 162James Sherr10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting 185Robin NiblettPart III Global Challenges11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement 205Devika Hovell12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century 223Paul Cornish13 The United States and climate change: from process to action 238Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order 258Paola SubacchiIndex 275

"Niblett manages to assemble a book that is surprisingly cohesive despite its vast scope . . . the immediacy, though, gives the book a journalistic quality." (The International Spectator, 2010)